Go! News and Notices: Jan. 4-10

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Each week, the Go! section lists news and notices from across the Hudson Valley and Catskills' arts and entertainment world. If you have news or notices you'd like to share, email tmalcolm@th-record.com.

Each week, the Go! section lists news and notices from across the Hudson Valley and Catskills' arts and entertainment world. If you have news or notices you'd like to share, email tmalcolm@th-record.com.

News

Half Moon Theatre is continuing the Half Moon Theatre School of the Arts and adding classes in spring 2013. An open house for the Half Moon Theatre School of the Arts will be held at 1 p.m. Jan. 12 at 2515 South Road, Poughkeepsie. The school will be offering acting performance and musical theater performance classes for children ages 8-14, plus creative moment classes for children ages 5-7. Actress Denise Summerford ("In Transit") is co-director of the school. For more information, visit halfmoontheatre.org.

Nkeiru Okoye, assistant professor of music at SUNY New Paltz, has been commissioned by New American Opera Projects to present her opera "Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed the Line to Freedom." New American Opera Projects received a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to support the project. For more, visit harriettubman.com.

Rehearsals/Auditions

County Players is holding auditions for "Aida" at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 and 14 at the County Players Falls Theatre, 2681 Main St., Wappingers Falls. County Players seeks three male and three female singing leads, two male nonsinging leads, and 18-20 ensemble players of a multicultural (Egyptian, Nubian) cast. For information, call Kevin Barnes at 473-0595.

The Delaware Valley Choral Society seeks singers for "All Things Good," the group's spring concert. Rehearsals begin 3 p.m. Sunday, and auditions will be held after rehearsal, and again Jan. 13, at the Milford United Methodist Church, 206 E. Ann St., Milford, Pa. For information, call Jeffrey Fornoff at 570-296-5333.

Film Calls

SUNY Orange seeks short films for its Orange County Short Film Festival, which takes place Feb. 23 at Orange Hall Theatre. If interested in showcasing your film, submit the film (no longer than 40 minutes) in DVD format by Saturday to SUNY Orange; applications and instructions can be found at sunyorange.edu.

Artist Calls

The Alliance Gallery, part of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, is asking for submissions for gallery shows in 2014. If interested in showing your work in 2014, call the Alliance Gallery at 252-7576 or visit artsalliancesite.org for full guidelines and specifications.